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Picking Through a Messy NFC East

By

Jason Gay

November 2, 2011

How can you not adore the NFC East?

The NFL's staid prestige division (10 Super Bowls—no other division is close) is a comical traffic jam. The Giants are 5-2, in first place by two games, despite spending most of Sunday chasing the cracked-windshield clown car of the Miami Dolphins.

Below the Giants, it's Anarchy of Mediocrity. Three teams—Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington—are bunched together with 3-4 records. One of them...